Poetry Notes

Certain lines and words in the poem make the same sound when reading aloud

• free verse

• rhyming

• repetition

• tone

A rhythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated.

• rhyme scheme

• free verse

• meter

• tone

The pattern of rhymes.

• rhythm

• rhyme scheme

• free verse

• ballad

The musical quality of a poem.

• meter

• tone

• rhythm

• rhyming

To repeat sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem.

• repetition

• stanza

• rhyme

• lyric

The attitude or mood the author creates.

• rhyme

• sonnet

• tone

• ballad

A narrative poem written to be sung.

• sonnet

• ballad

• haiku

• epic

A long narrative poem

• lyric

• ballad

• epic

• sonnet

Short poems that express personal feelings.

• ballad

• epic

• lyric

• haiku

Traditionally has fourteen lines of ten syllables each.

• haiku

• narrative

• sonnet

• ballad